Sentences with phrase «glacial earthquakes»

This graph shows a significant increase in the number of glacial earthquakes in Greenland since 2002.

Indeed, in another paper in the same issue of Science, Goran Ekstrom of Harvard University reported a marked increase in so - called glacial earthquakes (seismic events recorded throughout the world when Greenland's glaciers slip past rock) since 2002.

The best bonus feature, by far, is the 30 - minute clip of Al Gore updating his statistics and focusing on what has transpired since they finished shooting the movie, including glacial earthquakes and the rise in the oceans» acidic level.

Well now it's official, as in the video above you can clearly see Cole launching himself off summoned icebergs and hurling devastating glacial earthquakes.

Gore introduces the concept of abledo and shows how feedback loops could lead to dramatic reductions in ice, especially in the Arctic, and he mentions glacial earthquakes in Greenland, but he doesn't put a timeline on the melting of the ice sheets.

The project collects waveforms of seismic phases travelling through Earth and records instances of glacial earthquakes.

, a mélange of extended scenes, fresh slides, and cutting - edge research conveyed via solemn talking - heads that brings us up to speed on a few new eco-horrors, such as the terrifying giant jellyfish (right), glacial earthquakes, and CO2 emissions courtesy our own thawing permafrost.

The authors propose that glacial earthquakes are caused by icebergs overturning and scraping the fjord bottom during calving.

Glacial earthquakes are associated with the accelerating retreat of glaciers such as Kangerdlugssuaq in response to global warming.1

Ekström and colleagues report tomorrow in Science that glacial earthquakes — seaward lurches of glaciers — in Greenland have more than doubled in number since 2002.

Seismologists at Columbia University and Harvard University have found a new indicator that the Earth is warming: «glacial earthquakes» caused when the rivers of ice lurch unexpectedly and produce temblors as strong as magnitude 5.1 on the moment - magnitude scale, which is similar to the Richter scale.

Glacial earthquakes in Greenland, the researchers found, are most common in July and August, and have more than doubled in number since 2002.

Most of the glacial earthquakes occur in July and August, at the height of the Northern Hemisphere's summer melt.

Of course, by the time such «glacial earthquakes» were occurring, they would be the least of our worries.

Parts of the earth that are now rarely affected by tsunamis, such as northern coastal regions, could be hit by «glacial earthquakes,» in which glacier ice crashes to earth in massive landslides.

«Our experiments show that glacial earthquakes can generate far more powerful tsunamis than undersea earthquakes with similar magnitude,» said Song.